Career
He is Professor of Computer Science and the Rappaport Medical School at the Technion in Haifa, Israel. He is an author and co-author of more than 90 books and peer-reviewed articles, all of which were cited more than 2500 times. His contributions include defining (with Ido Dagan and Martin Golumbic) the notion of trapezoid graphs, and pioneering analysis of biological networks.
Pinter was born in Haifa, Israel in 1953 to parents of German Jewish descent.
After finishing at the top of his class in the Hebrew Reali School class of 1971, he obtained a Bachelor of Science (Summa cum laude) in Computer Science from the Technion, in the first class (1975) which started the program at freshman year.
The two have co-authored several papers in the field during the 1990s. He then went on to pursue graduate studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, obtaining an M.Sc in 1980 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1982, both in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His advisors were Charles Leiserson and Ron Rivest.
Before turning his focus to Bioinformatics, Pinter most notably co-defined the notion of trapezoid graphs and made significant contributions to the field of Integrated Circuit design.
After several years as VP for R&Doctorate at Compugen he joined the Technion in 2001 and has been a faculty member there since. During this time he has important contributions to the discrete modeling and analysis of biological networks, providing insights about their functionality in spite of the relatively simple and highly efficient computational techniques. In addition, he contributed to the discovery of Photosynthesic reactions in viruses.